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- Title
In Betita's Garage: Tracing the Archival Afterlives of Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez.
- Authors
Cotera, María Eugenia
- Abstract
The last time I saw Betita Martínez was in the summer of 2010 at the tail end of a research trip to California that Linda Garcia Merchant and I had organized as part of our oral history and archive project: Chicana por mi Raza (CPMR). My students knew of Betita through books, chiefly through her I 500 Years of Chicana History i and the writings reprinted in Alma Garcia's I Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings i (both of which are required reading for all CPMR research interns). In the spirit of I las veteranas i , we began to see this archive as a Chicana knowledge project not unlike the ones they had so carefully nurtured into being through the newspapers, curricula, research centers, and collectives that carved out a I sitio y lengua i for Chicana studies today.[5] Like those projects, Chicana por mi Raza envisions knowledge as belonging, first and foremost, to the people for whom and with whom it is created. In Betita's Garage: Tracing the Archival Afterlives of Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez.
- Subjects
BLACK power movement; WOMEN'S rights; COLLECTIVE memory
- Publication
American Quarterly, 2022, Vol 74, Issue 4, p1011
- ISSN
0003-0678
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/aq.2022.0067